Toast and Max are now promotional dogs for Dallas’ pet adoption needs.

DALLAS. Animal activists are hoping that two Dallas dogs that recently made the news under very different circumstances can help generate interest in hundreds of other animals that are also waiting for new homes to call their own.

The journey to a new home for a puppy named Toast is almost complete. Rescued by Dallas police a few weeks ago while scavenging for food near a dumpster in south Dallas, she was in the care of Dallas Animal Service wildlife specialist Jackie Sutherland because the officers who found the animal thought it might be a coyote.

DNA results, finally completed over the weekend, show she is actually a German Shepherd, Siberian Husky, and Australian Cattle Dog crossbreed.

Several people have signed up with Dallas Animal Services offering to adopt an “international” dog, and a new home should be chosen soon.

Another dog, a German Shepherd named Max, is in a slightly longer process but will also be heading to a new home soon.

This is a dog abandoned last week on Teegarden Road near Dowdy Ferry Road. Surveillance cameras installed by the Dowdy Ferry Animal Commission captured the man during the action and showed the dog chasing him as he drove away.

Ramiro Zuniga, 41, was arrested on Saturday and charged with animal cruelty. But as of this writing, he is still being held in the Dallas County Jail while federal authorities investigate his immigration status.

Dallas Animal Services reports that Max will also be offered for adoption, but he is not immediately available as the criminal case is just beginning. But citing being abandoned, DAS posted on social media that he has dozens of other German Shepherds, adults and puppies available for people to consider adopting him.

German Shepherds, Pit Bulls, and Great Pyrenean Dogs are some of the most common dogs available at DAS.

“We have so many wonderful dogs, hundreds of dogs to adopt or adopt,” said Carla Alvarado of Dallas Animal Services at their shelter at 1818 N. Westmoreland Road. “Just come check on us whenever you can.”

Because if you can’t adopt Max or Toast, maybe they might be interested in you with a 1 year old mix named Tommy or an 8 week old Shepard mix called Paige. On any given day, DAS reports that it has up to 300 dogs available.

Adoption is free and DAS N. Westmoreland is open every day of the week. You can get more information here.